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如何阻止核武器扩散——下篇

November 11, 2009
如果美国总统奥巴马能达成一项全面禁止核武器试验的条约，其诺贝尔和平奖可能才是实至荣归。但此间困难重重。新的核武国家、武器技术转移、以及需要平衡美国军事干涉可能性的战略紧急情况，都是核武裁减的主要障碍。更重要的是，印度仍然拒绝加入核政策专家巴拉特• 卡南德视为不公平的核不扩散体系。首先，印度认为，核不扩散或者核武裁减是试图让“没有武器装备的人缴械”。其次，中国的核武能力、其常规军事力量的规模、对巴基斯坦的友谊和支持、以及它跟印度各种冷热边界争端，都让新德里认为没有理由要放弃其军火库。最后，任何贬低印度战略自由的条约在该国国民中都会是极其不受欢迎的。很明显，这些都构成对核不扩散的重要挑战。但是，...

Pakistani Intelligence Helped Foil Bombing Plot

August 10, 2006
Pakistan’s intelligence agencies helped British in stopping a plot to blow up aircraft traveling between the UK and the US. While the UK arrested 21 people in connection with the plot, Pakistan arrested leader of the outlawed Islamic group Lashkar-e-Taiba, or LeT. India has fought LeT in Kashmir...

United Way to a New Political Europe

June 30, 2005
Debate over Europe's identity crisis, ignited by the rejection of the EU Constitution, was further stoked this week when British Prime Minister Tony Blair spoke before the EU Parliament. Blair enters his term as EU President armed with a plan to modernize Europe and redirect funds from...

法国对紧缩说“不”

May 7, 2012
法国选民拒绝经济紧缩政策，选举社会党候选人弗朗索瓦•奥朗德担任总统，使国际市场面临新的不确定性。作者乔纳森•芬比报道称，如果得到6月法国立法选举的支持，此次大选胜利将让欧盟重新制定关于拯救债务缠身的希腊和解决欧元区危机的计划。欧洲各国的选举结果都显示出反紧缩运动的力量不断增强。有些欧盟成员国习惯通过大量借贷来维持超出其财力范围的生活方式，然而，像德国那样的更强大的经济体的国民无法容忍对这些国家的救援，尽管法国和德国的公共债务占国内生产总值的比重相当，分别约为85%和81%。奥朗德努力向全球债券持有人和投资者保证，一旦经济发展，法国就能制定可持续的预算。芬比指出，...

Bill Easing Travel Ban to Cuba Withdrawn

September 16, 2004
Electoral politics continue to affect US policy toward Cuba. The focus of these policy debates are US restrictions on travel to the island nation. Republican Congressman Jeff Flake, citing election-year politics as a major obstacle, withdrew his initiative to ease such restrictions. "...

中国货币为什么这么多

October 16, 2010
中国的实体经济，如果按照GDP来计算，只有美国的三分之一强。但是，中国的货币量又是如何呢？《财新网》专栏作家王兰做了一个计算，从广义货币这个概念（广义货币即“狭义货币+居民储蓄存款+企业定期存款+外币存款+信托类存款+证券公司客户保证金等”）出发，她发现，中国的广义货币高出美国近5%，而且，到今年8月末，中国广义货币已高出美国约17%。如果我们将中国和日本做比较，则会发现，日本的实体经济和中国差不多，广义货币也高出美国不少。王兰认为，这或许和中日两国都有大量的贸易顺差、从而带来巨额外汇储备占用了大量本国货币有关。而且，通过一系列的数据，王兰得出如下一些观察：近10年来，在中国，（1）...

China’s Exports of Aluminum, Steel Soar

August 24, 2007
Controlling a booming economy, pointing it in new directions, is no easy task. Attempts by China's central government to reduce production and exports of aluminum and steel – two energy-intensive industries that also create large amounts of pollution – have not worked. Despite an increase in...

America Should Ditch its Tyrant Friends

August 16, 2005
"Grand rhetoric about democracy and freedom only resonates when it is supported by actual policy," write commentators T.K. Vogel and Eric A. Witte. In essence, they suggest that the Bush administration foreign policy has failed to adequately "walk the walk" in promoting...
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